Communication & New Media: Images and Video

A digital archive of thousands of television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. A project of the Duke University Library. Requires iTunes for viewing video.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress, WGBH Boston and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides the public with access to a collection of American public radio and television audio and visual materials dating back to the 1950s. The records will provide information about which public media video and audio materials have been digitized and preserved in the AAPB, indicate which video and audio files are available for research on location at WGBH and the Library of Congress, and highlight the participating stations. Contributing stations’ histories, information about significant productions and resources for participating organizations will be available online.

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Pathé News was a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1976 in the United Kingdom. The Pathé News archive is known today as "British Pathé". Its collection of news film and movies includes 3,500 hours of filmed history!

Broadcasts of various federal government events such as press conferences, bill signing ceremonies, political meetings, congressional hearings and debates. 160,000 hours of programming since 1987. Also links to Booknotes and Book TV

Contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents From UC Berkeley

Films commissioned by the U.S. Government to support the war effort during World War II: by John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, and Frank Capra's 8-part series Why We Fight. Downloadable MPG files.

Began in the late 1980s as a network, linking independent producers, programmers, community-based activists and viewers who support movements for social change and economic justice. Nearly 200 older documentaries available from the Internet Archive

Movies from the Prelinger Archive showing American everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in the 20thC. Downloadable MPEG-2

American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture. Free access to sound recordings, music and more.

See video of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2016. More than 300 digitized commercials are presented, along with analysis, historical background, and results from each election.

Browse archives for episodes by PBS program or by topics such as culture and science. American Experience, Frontline, Nova, Great Performances, Masterpiece, Julia Child, much more

It's a digital vault of 80,000 video clips, photos, sound recordings, and 3-D models, all embeddable and freely available to anyone who wants to reuse copyright-free media. They're impeccably organized, labeled, and tagged, so you can find just the type of clip or image you're looking for.

UCLA Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

Today housed at the Library of Congress, the archive primarily depicts life in America during the Great Depression and World War II. Provided by Yale University, this site has170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covers five categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II

American Life 1938-1969. Features 14,500 color images of life in America between 1938 and 1969. The archives can be accessed by year, location, subject, and keyword.

Standford Library's collection of dime novels and penny dreadfuls.
Consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of major American dime novel series, and strong holdings of story papers and British penny dreadfuls.

Includes over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States

Site dedicated to understanding the contexts of sexism, gender, women, men, violence, racism, and social change within the confines of print advertising

"Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere." ~ Google Arts & Culture

The Internet Archive processed more than 2 million volumes from its digital archive, compiling more than 14 million high resolution images spanning nearly every topic imaginable. Each image includes detailed descriptions, including the subject tags of the book it came from and the text immediately surrounding it on the page. The latter is especially powerful, as it allows to keyword search 500 years of images, instantly accessing particular topics or themes.

Library of Congress digital library of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history: print, manuscripts, photographs, moving pictures and recorded sound. More than 150 collections and growing

Prints from a photographic agency founded by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt and others in the late 1930s. You can view samples of this archive via our partnership with Google Arts & Culture.

Explores the relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising. Presents images and information on about 600 health related ads from 1910 to the 1950s.

More than 180,000 of the items in the New York Public Library Digital Collections are in the public domain.

Collection of images of billboards and other outdoor advertising from 1995 to 2003. Search by advertiser, product category or keyword.

Over 4.5 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by our talented community.

It's a digital vault of 80,000 video clips, photos, sound recordings, and 3-D models, all embeddable and freely available to anyone who wants to reuse copyright-free images. They're impeccably organized, labeled, and tagged, so you can find just the type of clip or image you're looking for.

Permanent Internet archive of news coverage of the events of September 11, 2001

Vintage graphic ads from the late 19th century to the present: browse through categories from alcohol, guns and tobacco to computers, perfume and propaganda

"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language".